Lady Yellowjackets Slip to No. 10 in Regional Poll (Mar. 3, 2004)
BILLINGS, MT – The Montana
State-Billings women’s basketball team was bumped
from No. 9 to No. 10 in the final regular season
NCAA West Region poll released on Wednesday.
Central Washington leapfrogged the Yellowjackets,
moving from unranked to No. 9 after winning their
sixth and seventh straight games last week. Last
week’s No. 10 team, St. Martin’s, fell out of the
poll.
The regional poll that
determines NCAA Tournament seeding will be released
at 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, March 7. The top eight
teams in the poll will qualify for the tournament.
The Yellowjackets have
completed their regular season with a 16-11 record.
Most other teams in the region will wrap up their
seasons with conference games on March 5 and 6. The
top four teams in this week’s poll have most likely
locked up tournament positions, while teams ranked
5-10 are battling for the final four spots.
No. 5 Sonoma State finishes
with road games at Cal State-Dominguez Hills and at
Cal State-Los Angeles. No. 6 Grand Canyon plays at
No. 3 Cal Poly Pomona and at Cal State-San
Bernardino. No. 7 Cal State-Chico is at Cal
State-Stanislaus and at No. 2 Cal
State-Bakersfield. No. 8 UC-San Diego plays at Cal
State-San Bernardino and at No. 3 Cal Poly Pomona.
No. 9 Central Washington hosts No. 1 Seattle
Pacific.
NCAA West Region Women’s
Basketball Poll (through games of February 29, 2004)
1. Seattle Pacific (26-0); 2. Cal
State-Bakersfield (20-5); 3. Cal Poly Pomona; 4.
Western Washington (19-6); 5. Sonoma State (16-9);
6. Grand Canyon (16-9); 7. Cal State-Chico (16-9);
8. UC-San Diego (14-11); 9. Central Washington
(17-9); 10. Montana State-Billings (16-11). |
